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From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu 
Newsgroups: grc.spyware
Subject: Possible Governmental Backdoor found
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:15:29 +0100
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002249.html

Chaos Computer Club from Germany has tonight announced that they have
located a backdoor trojan used by the German Goverment. The announcment was
made public on ccc.de with a detailed 20-page analysis of the functionality
of the malware. Download the report in PDF (in German) The malware in
question is a Windows backdoor consisting of a DLL and a kernel driver. The
backdoor includes a keylogger that targets certain applications.

These applications include Firefox, Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ and
others. The backdoor also contains code intended to take screenshots and
record audio, including recording Skype calls.

--- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)

--- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)